fistuca

From Latin fistūca.

fistuca (plural fistucae)

1. (Ancient Rome) A kind of pile driver.

   Synonym: fistuca bellica

• “fistuca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Faucist, faucist

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɪsˈtuː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fisˈtuː.ka]

fistūca f (genitive fistūcae); first declension

1. ram, piledriver; alternative form of festūca

This is the same word as festūca, although some dictionaries do not make a connection between the two. This spelling is generally restricted to the sense given above.

First-declension noun.

• “fistuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fistuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fistuca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fistuc-” in volume 6, column 828, in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present